The gun control stalemate, explained

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind are joined by Vox politics reporter Nicole Narea (@nicolenarea) to talk about gun violence. They discuss the findings of three different research studies related to gun policy, which gun control policies are effective, the outcomes of specific violence interventions, and how state legislatures respond to mass shootings. Editorial note: This episode touches on gun violence and suicide. If you want to talk to someone, you can call 1-800-273-8255 or visit www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org References: The Uvalde massacre and America's unique gun violence problem, explained Dylan on how gun ownership became a powerful political identity White paper 1: “The Science of Gun Policy” White paper 2: “Presence of Armed School Officials and Fatal and Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries During Mass School Shootings, United States, 1980-2019” White paper 3: “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy” Press coverage of mass shootings can cause copycat shootings Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds co-host, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just a quick note, we talk about gun violence and suicide a lot in this episode.
0:19.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds. I'm your host Dylan Matthews and today I'm
0:23.8	joined by my regular co-host Darryl Lind. Hello. And Fox Politics reporter Nicole Naria. Hey.
0:31.6	It's been one week since an 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 children and two adults at
0:36.3	an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. And frankly, it's just exhausting to keep having the same
0:42.4	conversations after mass shootings like this. And especially right now, it's hard not to feel
0:47.3	utterly hopeless about the chances of reducing gun violence in the U.S. But it's important to keep
0:53.5	talking about the science of gun violence and the political factors preventing the government from
0:57.6	taking action. So today we're going to be looking at what we know about America's gun problem
1:02.8	through three different white papers. The papers focus on which gun control policies do work,
1:07.8	other techniques like police and schools intended to prevent shootings, and how state legislatures
1:12.8	respond to mass shootings. So our first white paper is from the RAN corporation, which put together
1:19.0	a very, very long book length review of the evidence on gun control laws called the Science of
1:24.3	Gun Policy. This is actually the second edition of their review on the first one came out in 2018
1:29.3	and the second one came out last year. The lead author is Rosanna Smart, but she's one of 11 credited
1:34.6	authors. And so it's really a team effort and we give credit to everyone at RAN to work on this.
1:40.9	It's the most comprehensive review of evidence around gun policies that I've seen, but
1:45.8	there are also a lot of smaller studies being reviewed here. And so it's building on the work of
1:51.7	dozens and dozens of people. So the RAN authors go through a long list of policies. They find
1:57.2	as many studies as they can about those policies and they categorize them based on the strength
2:01.6	and conclusions of those studies. And they sort of divide the strength of evidence into a few
2:07.9	categories. So supportive evidence, which is their highest category, means that they found at least
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